The next big question is, “What will I be communicating about”? Goodness. What a question. That one question has kept me pacing back and forth, and in and out of my office the last couple of days. I’ve been staring at the first page in hopes that something has appeared since the last, “pace-out”. The problem is not that I am empty for ideas. The problem is that I have too many of them to be able to narrow it all down to one subject. There is always something that gets my brain zinging, or my blood boiling. There are things that daily engage, inspire, and even aggravate me. They are rarely about just one subject. Almost anything regarding the lives of people is enough to set me off, which usually gets me to head for my “soap-box”.
Engaging in people-work is by no means easy work. Individual lives are so often riddled by complex problems, and difficulties. I have always worked towards helping patients and clients to improve their lives, and the best way to accomplish this, is through the beautiful principle of simplifying. The “how” is through knowledge and the various levels of awareness it creates. Sometimes we have to turn our thinking upside-down, and our brains inside-out. There are also some fantastic methods and tools to be found out there to aid in implementing and integrating change. At about Pentad, you can read about the broad specter of theoretical education/training, and clinical experience I have used my life on. Any subject regarding the, “human-experience” is subject for scrutiny. All in all, don’t be surprised by what may show up on these pages.
Now. I recently published an article, “Trouble in the US”. It seemed to raise a few eyebrows. I really do prefer a “cut-the-bull” approach. I’m more concerned with saying things as they are, than I am concerned about being popular. It’s a syndrome that comes with age. Anyway. I received a telephone call, or more correctly a voice-message, last weekend. This person had obviously read what I had written, they phoned me up, and poured their heart out. There was so much noise in the background that I couldn’t make out the entire conversation, however, after listening to it a couple of times, I caught a couple of sentences. Basically the person was relaying the everyday facts of life. In other words, they had enough just keeping up with getting ready for Christmas, and putting in their time at work in order to get their money. The message seemed to be one of surviving everyday life. The survival mode. Sometimes it can feel like trying to hang on to the back-bumper of a speeding car around a sharp corner on a mountain road, and the only thing you can see happening if you should let go, is plummeting off the cliff on the other side. I get it. Been there, and done that.
Now, I know that when you keep doing the same things over and over, you will get the same outcome. Sometimes people engage in the same behavior, and they sit in suspension waiting for a different outcome. Well, it “ain’t gonna” happen. Yet, when you are in survival mode you have to start with the tiniest of steps, although this is dependent on any step being visible in the first place. This is often times not the case in the mode of survival. I really do know that people have answers and solutions when they begin the process of increasing their awareness. However, even then it can seem difficult to take those first baby-steps. As a result of that phone call, and the “what can we do?” question, I will also be writing down practical tips. These tips will be based on “energy-preserving” principles, yet they can start the ball rolling in a different direction.
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